Putin to visit Fed hi-tech traumatology centre in Barnaul.

MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin
who is on a working trip in the Siberian Federal District on June 19 will
visit Barnaul, the government's press service reported.

In Barnaul he will
familiarise himself with the progress of the construction of the Federal
high technology centre of traumatic surgery, orthopaedics and
endoprosthesis replacement that is one of seven such centres that are
being created within the framework of the priority national project
"Health."
The RF government head will also visit the territorial clinical
hospital - the largest medical institution of the region that provides
consultative-diagnostics, specialised, including high technology medical
aid to all its residents. More than 25,000 patients are annually
undergoing treatment at the clinic and 17,000 surgeries are conducted.
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.RF may quickly pass WTO entry process within Customs Union-min.

MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - Russia is read to maximally quickly
follow the path of the negotiating process on the admission to the World
Trade Organisation (WTO) within the framework of the Customs Union with
Kazakhstan and Belarus, RF Economic Development Minister Elvira Nabiullina
said at a joint meeting with the Russian Union of Industrialists and
Entrepreneurs on Thursday.
"The Customs Union is a reality that will begin to act from January
2010 and at the same time we want to maximally quickly join the WTO," she
said.
"We have all possibilities to do this, we are trying to find a
correctly legally formalised procedure in order to do this," Nabiullina
said. She noted that the "admission to the WTO remains a priority for all
states of the Customs Union."
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.Customs Union not to greatly lower RF average weighted import duty.

MOSCOW, June 19 (Itar-Tass) - The average weighted rate of the Russian
import duty in the process of the formation of the Customs Union will be
decreased just by a percentage point, Russian Economic Development
Minister Elvira Nabiullina told journalists on Thursday. "On the whole the
average weighted rate of the import duty will remain the same," she said.
Nabiullina recalled that "the single tariff was formed with taking
into account the interests of all the three countries." "By the beginning
of intensive talks on the harmonisation of the single tariff it was 90
percent coordinated with Belarus and slightly less with Kazakhstan," she
recalled. "I will not name now the concrete positions on which changes
were made, there are many of them, but they are just Russia's small
concessions," Nabiullina noted.
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